Big and groundbreaking. Those are the two words which you'll often hear when it comes to movies of the 1980s . Coming out of the 1970s and into a brand-new decade, filmmakers were looking to push the envelope when it came to telling their stories on the big screen. While movies at the beginning of the decade carried the same look and feel as their '70s counterparts, by the middle of the decade, movies were starting to break new ground, and launch new franchises that are still enjoyed to this very day.

There were so many iconic movies that came out during this exciting era, from comedy gold standards such as Airplane! and Ferris Bueller's Day Off , to bombastic action movies such as RoboCop and Lethal Weapon . While those movies are certainly classics, there w

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